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Losing someone you care about due to death is heartbreaking. Wolterstorff laments his son Eric. Wolterstorff expression upon receiving the news of the death of his son depicts the love he had for his son. Although he was not there during most of his time, Woterstorff took the initiative to narrate his encounter. It is quiet inspirational as he laments the way he will be missing his son. His faith in God comforts him. Ideally, Wolterstorff wrote the lamentation book to assist others gets inspired facing the same predicament. The book is ideal for those who are grieving Eric ...

Death is the biggest and the inevitable truth of life. Death makes everyone helpless and isolated. Only time can heal the pain and the loss inflicted by the death of any person. Death of a spouse is a heart breaking experience with profound implications that affect the living spouse physically, psychologically, emotionally and spiritually. In this context, this essay tries to find out how widows and widowers differ in coping with the death of their spouse. Generally, death cuts the deep, meaningful connection between the spouses. But, in order to get healed the grieving process is necessary for both widows ...

Res judicata needs be openly defined in order to decide its scope and confines. First, it should be known that this principle give the impression of being firmly rooted both in the legislations of the member nations and in the Court of Justice case-law. Therefore in this respect, it must be understood that res judicata is closely linked to the principle of legal certainty. Simply put, res judicata means that an adjudicated matter cannot be re-litigated. It’s also important to note that the legal authority of a decision in principle is relative. Striking a balance between conflicting interests is the ...

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Introduction Grief is the response of an individual to the loss of something or someone with whom the individual has a bond. (Smith, 2012). Every individual has a different reaction to grief. Grief therefore may be considered a personal phenomenon. However, the loss may not always be personal. Grief may be experienced for a loss of opportunity at work or loss of a friendship. One may therefore state that there are different types of grief. The process of grieving however may remain the same irrespective of the type of loss. Kübler-Ross describes grief in five stages. This is the most commonly accepted ...

Grief is a fact of life that is inevitable. Through loss, pain and suffering in any way, one goes through grief, with each individual with their own way of handling grief. How one chooses to handle grief is entirely up to the individual and their personality, their environment and the social support structures they have to aid them through this process. In an attempt to explain and understand grief and the process of grief, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross hypothesized the “grief cycle”, otherwise known as the five stages of grief. In this paper, I will seek to critically look into the ...

Stages of grieving

Grief is a natural and normal though frequently painful, reaction or response to a loss. The grieving process requires patience, time, support and courage. According to Kübler-Ross (1997), the grieving process has five stages namely denial, anger, bargaining depression and acceptance. In the denial stage being the first stage, individuals deny that they have lost. This is the ultimate way the mind shields one from other pains associated with grief. Anger is the second stage where one is filled with great anger over the loss. In the third stage being bargaining, one tries to negotiate with God or other supreme ...

While the medical description of death as a cessation of bodily functions that sustain life is rather simple, religious and philosophical traditions have extended their efforts to describe and experience the nature of death as a physical and spiritual event. All cultures in the world have been fascinated with the nature of death, and each culture has developed a set of beliefs related to death’s connection with life, its connection to the soul’s transition into the afterlife, and some religions have proposed the theory of reincarnation that considers death as a temporary event before the soul’s next birth in the ...